rummy

rummy

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɹʌmɪ/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɹʌmi/
• Rhymes: -ʌmi

Etymology 1

Unknown.

Noun

rummy (usually uncountable, plural rummies)

1. A card game with many rule variants, conceptually similar to mahjong.

Derived terms

• gin rummy
• Indian rummy
• Liverpool rummy

Translations

card game

Arabic: هَانْد رِيمِي‎ m (hānd rīmī), هَانْد‎ m (hānd) Bulgarian: рум m (rum) Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Czech: žolíky (cs) m pl, remy m Danish: rommy n Esperanto: rumio Finnish: rommi (fi) French: rami (fr) m German: Rommé (de) n, Rommee n Greek: ραμί (el) n (ramí) Hebrew: רֶמִי‎ m (remí) Hindi: रमी (hi) f (ramī) Hungarian: römi (hu) Indonesian: remi (id) Irish: rumaí m Italian: ramino (it) m Japanese: ラミー (ramī) Korean: 러미 (reomi) Macedonian: реми n (remi) Malayalam: റമ്മി (ṟammi) Polish: remik (pl) m, remibrydż (pl) m, żolik m Romanian: rummy (ro) n Russian: ра́мми m (rámmi), ре́мик m (rémik) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: рѐми m Roman: rèmi (sh) m Sinhalese: රුම්මි (rummi) Slovak: remy m, žolík m, žolíky m pl Slovene: remi m Tamil: ரம்மி (rammi) Telugu: రమ్మీ (rammī) Thai: รัมมี่ (ram-mîi) Turkish: remi (tr)

Etymology 2

rum +‎ -y

Adjective

rummy (comparative rummier, superlative rummiest)

1. Resembling or tasting of rum.

   a rummy flavour

2. (UK, colloquial, dated) Peculiar; odd.
   • 1920, P. G. Wodehouse, Jill the Reckless, page 28:

     “You say rummy things and you do rummy things. What I mean to say is, you're impulsive.”

Derived terms

• rummily
• rumminess
• rummy nose
• rummy-nose tetra

 

Noun

rummy (plural rummies)

1. A rum-drinking alcoholic.
   • 1991, Stephen King, Needful Things:

     No one has forgotten Frank Dodd, the crossing guard who went crazy here twelve years ago and killed those women, and they haven't forgotten the dog, either, the one that came down with rabies and killed Joe Camber and the old rummy down the road from him.

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Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English rummy.

Noun

rummy n (uncountable)

1. rummy

Declension

declension of rummy (singular only)

	singular
n gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) rummy	rummyul
genitive/dative	(unui) rummy	rummyului
vocative	rummyule